The New Transit Direction - Wonderful Defense Mechanisms

Formed in 2000, through friendships forged around Salt Lake City's Kilby Court DIY music & art scene, The New Transit Direction began with modest goals: To write dynamic rock songs in the vein of Jawbreaker, Burning Airlines, & Jawbox, & to express these songs in honest ways through both emotive live shows & the best recordings possible. Then, get in the van & turn on the rest of the world. They've been following that steady diet of write, record & tour for the past two years. Produced & mixed by Jon Congleton (90 Day Men, the Paper Chase), the bulk of their debut album was recorded at the Shed Studios in Manhattan, with a Neve board that once belonged to Kinks front man Ray Davies. "Wonderful Defense Mechanisms" is an album of dynamic rock anthems & ballads.

1) Fictional
2) Survival 101
3) Means to An End
4) Anonymous
5) Three Word Distrust
6) Out the Lights
7) Mechanical Failure
8) To the Sea
9) Conditions
10) Houston
11) Pieces